[NTLUG:Discuss] system crash

[Peter Koren]

I have 128MB of RAM and the same for swap. I had over a dozen KDE
Konsole windows open, though none were particularly active. BTW, on the
first reboot, I got a kernel panic in fsck. But the second attempt went
without a hitch.

Thanks,

Peter Koren


Rick Cook wrote:
> 
> ---------- on Sun, 27 Feb 2000 11:58:52 -0600 , Peter Koren said ->
> >>
> >> I just had a system crash and it is not the first time.
> >>
> >> I'm running Suse 6.3 and I was running netscape and StarOffice when the
> >> disk drive suddenly started furious activity that did not stop. I could
> >> not get another shell to work and could not get to the console. I had to
> >> shut off the power.
> >>
> >> Any Ideas?
> >>
> 
> StarOffice seems to be a rather severe memory hog. How much RAM do you
> have and what else was running (other than Netscape and X). The symptom
> you are describing sounds like the system was attempting to swap and
> was not being very successful about it.
> 
> Oh yes, and how big is your swap partition?
> 
> Rick Cook
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